Call for Presentations: Ecologies of Drawing

Call for Presentations for a series of online events March-June 2022

Drawing Research Network 2022: Ecologies of Drawing
Drawing Research Group, Loughborough University, UK
Deadline Monday 31st January 2022

This series of events aims to explore Ecologies of Drawing and how they might act as agents of change. Scientifically concerned with the interrelationship of organisms and environments, in the context of drawing the term ecology might be understood generously to include: environments of dynamic exchange and metastable equilibrium; inter-relational sites of spatial and temporal encounter; the complex systems and patterns of material and virtual worlds; social, political, and economic ecologies; self-sustaining microcosms within spheres of containment; and fragile interdependencies.

In the light of the analogous and entwined conditions of drawing and ecology, we are curious to learn how the agency of drawing operates as an ecological practice - be it in graphite trails, sonic traces, and waves of light, or events and encounters that activate diverse thought and conversation.

Each session of presented papers aims to provide a space for discussion, dissemination and the exchange of knowledge. With the intention of promoting fertile interactions that explore this conceptually rich terrain, we suggest the following as starting points and as possible themes, prompts and provocations:

•       How does the ecology of drawing materialise the interrelationships between living processes and culture?
•       In what way can ecologies of drawing record, reproduce, adapt, and/or repair relations between humans and their environments?
•       How do drawing practices operate amidst the inter-disciplinary and intersecting ecologies of a more-than human world?
•       What is the role of drawing in mapping ecological, material, psychological and perceptual environments?
•       In what manner can drawing unfold intersections of political, social, economic, racial or gendered ecologies?

Each event will take the form of 2/3 presentations, which address the call’s theme, followed by a Q&A session. We would like to invite proposals for a 20-minute presentation from practitioners, theorists and practitioner-researchers, which addresses the theme. To apply please submit one word .docx document, labelled as follows: surname.forename.presentation and include the following:

·       250 word abstract detailing the research question and proposed presentation
·       50 word biography

Deadline Monday 31st January 2022
Please submit your proposal here:  https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fforms%2Fd%2F10X5q76S2tIriOTsigR8iWzzAkVXzzO4bhCtVluxW0HY%2Fedit&data=04%7C01%7C%7C2947fce11e1b422391da08d9e23fe32a%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637789586389945349%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=At%2FbkBu%2BpL%2BEXiDikDAPQSAfqoAy1dGYYhmafG3jbew%3D&reserved=0